In that case you either didn't go to Europe, or else you did and walked around with your eyes, ears and mouth shut.
I'd have to say that walking around with your mouth shut, or at least under control, is a pretty good way to avoid looking like an idiot anywhere you go. It saves you from making yourself (and the country you represent) look like an ass.
Having just come back from Europe (Rome, Nice, Paris & London), as an American (from Texas no less), I had nothing but good experiences with everyone I met. I can't say the same about the other idiot Americans who also happened to be staying at my hotel. In typical movie fashion they got louder and louder as the unfortunate hotel clerk tried to help them find a restaurant to eat at late at night. The more she had trouble understanding them they just got more irritated, annoying and bigoted. Standing there at the counter I felt so ashamed.
This isn't to say that Americans don't have a negative image in the world, but overall, people are smart and realize that not everyone conforms to the stereotype. My advice is to remember that you're not at home when you travel. Things don't go according to plan. Understand that you will have a hard time making yourself understood, but be polite. Don't leave the country if you're a rude, pompous, arrogant asshole (or leave and don't come back).
Those transponders are everywhere here in Houston. Some also have cameras.
More than that though, it is all freely accessible to the public at http://traffic.tamu.edu.
It seems that it is impossible to stem the flow of this technology. Cameras will be placed on street corners and methods for police to find crime will improve. The real concern, IMNSHO, is who is looking through the cameras, gov't or everyone?
Well, I got in late on this article but I've been lucky I guess.
With only a few exceptions the clients I've worked for have all treated me very professionally often taking what I say about technology as if I'm some sort of oracle of truth. It's been that way since I was 12, now being 22 I am rarely questioned by the people who hire me and when people do have concerns they are usually just misunderstandings where I have not adequately described something.
You must have lived in Houston. I remember many afternoons in 1991-3 playing Tradewars, BRE and SRE on the local BBS's. Let's see... what did I go by... Gold Dragon or Q, that's it. Oh man, now I feel old.
I swear, spend your moderation points on bringing up worthy points and clear questions, leave humour alone. Sure it's offtopic but the point you spent on me could have easily been spent on some other person's more lucid discussion of the technology at hand.
A few semesters ago I took an Intro to C++ class and our programming language of choice was g++. Actually for all but our first COSC class, gcc or g++ have been the compilers required by our professors. And without fail, in every class, there's somebody who asks, "What about MSVC?" And our teachers always reply, "If you must, but when your program doesn't work on my machine you'll have no sympathy from me."
Atheism is a sickness. It is disgusting. It is responsible for millions of not billions of deaths worldwide. Because they did not believe in any ultimate accountability for their actions they felt free to unleash governments that did unspeakable things. Atheism is a disease of the mind.
Thank you for clarifying that, now I suppose I'm free to step outside and brutally slaughter millions of people, loot and damage stores worldwide because of my religious beliefs (or lack thereof).
Frankly sir, that is a bunch of bullshit. I believe in being a nice person for its own sake, not out of fear of eternal punishment. That's what churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, etc. should be teaching. Not that you will perish eternally for some minute sin but that being kind and good IS THE REWARD in itself. It's really sad to read this kind of drivel here, it really makes me sad for the human race, we have so far to go I wonder if we'll ever make it...
This was so insanely ignorant I just had to post. Anyone who has taken a basic Western Civ class knows that current theory is in direct contrast to the following statement:
50,000 years ago there were more people just like you who enjoyed picking fruits from the trees and were against the new "trends" of "hunting" and "farming".
For gods sake man, get it right, people were hunters and gatherers before they had the technology to grow plants and domesticate animals. Once this technology was available they could then settle and start enjoying a slightly easier life picking fruits from trees and reduce their need on the "trends" of hunting. And as for:
OpenGL is obsolete, and this is FUD. Why would game developers ignore an API that has all these features, in favour of Direct3D?
Where have you been? Heard of id? OpenGL is far from obsolete, but if you really want someone to port Direct3D to Linux I suggest you get on the phone with your buddy Bill.
I hate ignorance, but even I fall prey to it sometimes.
Perhaps more interesting than the fact that this has to be the stupidest article I've ever read, I think now, I've read the stupidestcomment This person actually states... Just wait you're gonna love this...
Open source isn't about Free!
At this point my mind went berzerk as I realised what a complete moron this must be and how right RMS was in his interview about the differences between the FSF and OSI that the general public would perceive. tsk, tsk
One of the things that has changed is the size of the gap between the low end weaponry that the typical citizen has and the high end weapons that the military has. Back in those days a warm body on one side of the fight was roughly tactically equal to a warm body on the other side. These days it's more appropriate to think of a well armed soldier as a mobile weapons platform.
I think the North Vietnamese would disagree with that argument.
Even if it means reducing my civil rights as a cost, if this law puts something in the path of terrorists - of any description - then I support it.
It might seem like a good idea now, to give up some civil rights, but what about later...
Once a government (of any kind) determines that it can trick the population into denouncing some civil rights for a "good" purpose another enemy will be found, this enemy could be you for perhaps disagreeing with having all your rights crushed, and another civil right can and most likely will be crushed, because now the people are accustomed to it, it didn't "really" cause any problems last time, why should it now?
Where does this end?
It should end with the first attempt to trample on our (your) civil rights.
At 56k? Most of us don't have access to our school's network, thank you.
The point was that Linux was available for download if you really wanted it, about 6.5(?) years ago I downloaded one of the first Slackware distros and it was about 30(?) disks, on only a 14.4 connection.
It seems kind of odd that that kind of investment would be made when in all of recorded history (about [46]000 years of it) we have wars and famines and many numbers of unknown and uncontrollable factors, including hostile leaders and hostile people along with diseases, etc... I really don't think that humans as a race could survive for 10000 years in only a space the size of Manhattan.
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I'd have to say that walking around with your mouth shut, or at least under control, is a pretty good way to avoid looking like an idiot anywhere you go. It saves you from making yourself (and the country you represent) look like an ass.
Having just come back from Europe (Rome, Nice, Paris & London), as an American (from Texas no less), I had nothing but good experiences with everyone I met. I can't say the same about the other idiot Americans who also happened to be staying at my hotel. In typical movie fashion they got louder and louder as the unfortunate hotel clerk tried to help them find a restaurant to eat at late at night. The more she had trouble understanding them they just got more irritated, annoying and bigoted. Standing there at the counter I felt so ashamed.
This isn't to say that Americans don't have a negative image in the world, but overall, people are smart and realize that not everyone conforms to the stereotype. My advice is to remember that you're not at home when you travel. Things don't go according to plan. Understand that you will have a hard time making yourself understood, but be polite. Don't leave the country if you're a rude, pompous, arrogant asshole (or leave and don't come back).
More than that though, it is all freely accessible to the public at http://traffic.tamu.edu.
It seems that it is impossible to stem the flow of this technology. Cameras will be placed on street corners and methods for police to find crime will improve. The real concern, IMNSHO, is who is looking through the cameras, gov't or everyone?
Sophos posted a message about this today here. I have found them to be one of the more honest and reputable commercial anti-virus companies.
With only a few exceptions the clients I've worked for have all treated me very professionally often taking what I say about technology as if I'm some sort of oracle of truth. It's been that way since I was 12, now being 22 I am rarely questioned by the people who hire me and when people do have concerns they are usually just misunderstandings where I have not adequately described something.
Best of luck to you.
You must have lived in Houston. I remember many afternoons in 1991-3 playing Tradewars, BRE and SRE on the local BBS's. Let's see... what did I go by... Gold Dragon or Q, that's it. Oh man, now I feel old.
I swear, spend your moderation points on bringing up worthy points and clear questions, leave humour alone. Sure it's offtopic but the point you spent on me could have easily been spent on some other person's more lucid discussion of the technology at hand.
I always find this very comforting.
Thank you for clarifying that, now I suppose I'm free to step outside and brutally slaughter millions of people, loot and damage stores worldwide because of my religious beliefs (or lack thereof).
Frankly sir, that is a bunch of bullshit. I believe in being a nice person for its own sake, not out of fear of eternal punishment. That's what churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, etc. should be teaching. Not that you will perish eternally for some minute sin but that being kind and good IS THE REWARD in itself. It's really sad to read this kind of drivel here, it really makes me sad for the human race, we have so far to go I wonder if we'll ever make it...
For gods sake man, get it right, people were hunters and gatherers before they had the technology to grow plants and domesticate animals. Once this technology was available they could then settle and start enjoying a slightly easier life picking fruits from trees and reduce their need on the "trends" of hunting. And as for:
Where have you been? Heard of id? OpenGL is far from obsolete, but if you really want someone to port Direct3D to Linux I suggest you get on the phone with your buddy Bill.
I hate ignorance, but even I fall prey to it sometimes.
By far the holy grail of heads-up displays is the MicroOptical Integrated Eyeglass Display. Thad Starner, another of the MIT grads working with wearables (now at Georgia Tech) has a pair.
This person actually states...
Just wait you're gonna love this...
Open source isn't about Free!
At this point my mind went berzerk as I realised what a complete moron this must be and how right RMS was in his interview about the differences between the FSF and OSI that the general public would perceive. tsk, tsk
... PMMail can not be beat in my opinion. It doesn't get much press but it handles PGP 2.x and [56].x very well. It's fast and very reliable.
I think the North Vietnamese would disagree with that argument.
It might seem like a good idea now, to give up some civil rights, but what about later...
Once a government (of any kind) determines that it can trick the population into denouncing some civil rights for a "good" purpose another enemy will be found, this enemy could be you for perhaps disagreeing with having all your rights crushed, and another civil right can and most likely will be crushed, because now the people are accustomed to it, it didn't "really" cause any problems last time, why should it now?
Where does this end?
It should end with the first attempt to trample on our (your) civil rights.
The point was that Linux was available for download if you really wanted it, about 6.5(?) years ago I downloaded one of the first Slackware distros and it was about 30(?) disks, on only a 14.4 connection.
It can be done.
It seems kind of odd that that kind of investment would be made when in all of recorded history (about [46]000 years of it) we have wars and famines and many numbers of unknown and uncontrollable factors, including hostile leaders and hostile people along with diseases, etc... I really don't think that humans as a race could survive for 10000 years in only a space the size of Manhattan.